Mar 22, 2007News: Priest Who Joined Gay-Baby Debate Gets Fired
By Kyleovision
(Naples, FL) - Just a week ago, Father Joseph Fessio, the Provost of Catholic Ave Maria University, joined in the debate over gay 'unborn babies' and the prospects that one day there might be hormone treatments that could 'straighten out' a gay fetus in utero. Now he's out of a job.
He was suddenly forced to resign from the Florida school yesterday afternoon, citing "irreconcilable difference over administrative policies and practices." He declined to give any more information on his firing.
Father Fessio, who counts the Pope as his mentor, had recently gone public with his support of a theory put forth by evangelist preacher Albert Mohler that entertained the prospect that homosexuality could be genetic, could be detected, and might someday be 'treatable' via hormone patches worn by a pregnant mother.
"Same-sex activity is considered disordered," Fessio said, last week. "If there are ways of detecting diseases or disorders of children in the womb, and a way of treating them that respected the dignity of the child and mother, it would be a wonderful advancement of science."
Mohler's theory raised hackles on all sides of the religious debate about homosexuality, with gay-rights groups reading potential genocide into the idea while many Catholics and evangelical Christians blanched at the very notion that homosexuality might be something other than a chosen sin.
